![]() ![]() An intelligent and well-plotted thriller. There are a few beautiful twists as the suspense mounts and the story reaches its unexpected climax. The humour is subtle and delicious - watch out for rhubarb galette! Seemingly unrelated characters and incidents start to link together to form an intricate plot - read attentively because there are clues everywhere. Some of the characters from the author's previous book Sirene reappear the action is fast paced and the writing is tight. ![]() ![]() ![]() I expected the story to be a continuation of how they survive.īut as power begins to be restored the action moves to Europe, where a contract killer accompanied by his increasingly reluctant girlfriend, is bumping off unsuspecting victims. The author draws a eerily plausible vision of life when shops have been ransacked, people can't access their money because the banks are closed and are reduced to trading what few worthless items they still have in order to feed themselves and keep warm. A group of disparate people struggle to survive as best they can. Originally from the United Kingdom, Mr Ives graduated from Liverpool University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and a Bachelor of Surgery (ChB). Parallax opens in London a short while into the future, in the aftermath of a solar storm that has knocked out the electricity supply. Mr Ives is passionate about the positive changes that plastic surgery can make in people’s lives and feels privileged to have such a rewarding career. ![]()
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